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Horror

Eileen

by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Description

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's carer in his squalid home and her day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a handsome prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
HorrorTerrifying
SpiceModerate
ProfanityModerate

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Details

First published
August 18, 2015
Pages
260
Reading time
About 5 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Language
English
ISBN
9780224102551
Series
Standalone

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